Fly-tippers were forced to pay more than £100,000 in 2025 in Barnet, as the borough’s Labour administration clamps down on inappropriate rubbish dumping.
The figure was revealed at the latest meeting of Barnet Full Council on the 27th January.
The total figure was as a result of 147 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) being given for fly-tipping in 2025.
The drive to hold fly-tippers accountable has been partly driven by Barnet Labour’s upgrade of the council’s CCTV system, which was broken 70 per cent of the time under the Conservatives.
Meanwhile, a new initiative has brought high-tech re-deployable cameras, high-visibility patrols and CCTV patrol vans in known problem areas to disrupt regular fly-tippers in Hendon, West Hendon, Cricklewood and Burnt Oak.
Councillor Alan Schneiderman, Labour’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change, said: “We have used carrot and stick to tackle fly-tipping from the community skips programme to our CCTV cameras and staff with the ability to give FPNs.
“The Tories have failed or opposed this agenda – axing the community skips programme, running down the CCTV system and outsourcing our summer park patrols meaning staff could not issue FPNs.
“Only Labour is determined to tackle fly-tipping, head on.”
